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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds4!prang From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Bad sectors on an IDE Date: 20 Nov 93 01:05:41 GMT Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH Lines: 31 Message-ID: <prang.753757541@du9ds4> References: <shad.753516286@pv0220.vincent.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de shad@iastate.edu (Hanse ShadowSpawn) writes: >For the past few weeks I've been trying to install FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE. >I was having "Can't allocate memory" errors after running configure. I >finally figured out that I was getting hard drive errors due to unmapped >bad sectors on my IDE drive. Is there a way to mark these sectors as >bad (the same way DOS does and does well) so that the OS won't try to >use them? I know that there is a media analysis option in the AMI BIOS >(the version I'm running) that will supposedly update a bad sector >table, but is that meant for IDE drives? I don't really want to do >damage to my drive and the total of bad sectors is less than 1% of my >drive (which is acceptable to me). Is there a Norton Disk Doctor style >program for FreeBSD or NetBSD that takes care of this problem? I want >to get a *BSD system running and can't. Any help would be appreciated. IDE drives should be error free because bad sectors should be remapped with (good) spare sectors on the disk. If you experience bad sectors on an IDE drive, this is a strong reason to get a new drive from the drive manufacturer/distributor, since this indicates upcoming trouble with your drive. I got a new drive for my 7 month old Seagate 3283A, after I reported the problem and sent them the disk. Juergen -- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de University of Duisburg |******************************************** Electrical Engineering | Logic is a systematic method of coming Dept. of Dataprocessing | to the wrong conclusion with confidence